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by deno 3827 days ago
What’s the use case for NFC?
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mike-cardwell 3827 days ago
Using PGP on your smartphone without giving it access to your PGP key - https://grepular.com/An_NFC_PGP_SmartCard_For_Android - That's how I use it anyway.
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justinjlynn 3827 days ago
For usage with mobile applications, where NFC is typically available but USB Host is not, I would imagine.
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JohnTHaller 3827 days ago
On Android, you typically have USB host (at least on any phone that someone interested in this tech would buy). On iOS it's moot since NFC is gimped and can't be used by apps.
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lorenzhs 3827 days ago
Most people don't carry the necessary cable around with them, though. NFC doesn't require any additional hardware.

I use it for generating 2FA codes, Yubico Authenticator works like Google Authenticator except that it requires touching the YubiKey to the phone before it shows the 2FA codes. The codes are computed on the YubiKey: https://github.com/Yubico/yubioath-android/blob/63387c02a39b...

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